Seneca to Paul, greeting. I believe, Paul, that you have been informed of the talk which I had yesterday with my Lucilius about the apocrypha and other things; for certain sharers in your teaching were with me.
2For we had retired to the gardens of Sallust, where, because of us, those whom I speak of, going in another direction, saw and joined us. Certainly we wished for your presence, and I would have you know it.
3We were much refreshed by the reading of your book, by which I mean some of the many letters which you have addressed to some city or capital of a province, and which inculcate the moral life with admirable precepts.
4These thoughts, I take it, are not uttered by you but through you, but surely sometimes both by you and through you: for such is the greatness of them and they are instinct with such nobility, that I think whole generations of men could hardly suffice for the instilling and perfecting of them. I desire your good health, brother.